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Meanings of mere skeleton in English
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Usage of mere skeleton in English
1
Pierre owned the only remaining horse; which was now a mere skeleton.
2
The woman lay in one of them, reduced to a mere skeleton.
3
When I began using your wonderful health-food I was a mere skeleton.
4
His once strong, stout frame was now reduced to a mere skeleton.
5
This woman was a mere skeleton, with every function out of order.
6
He must have died of cold and starvation; he was a mere skeleton.
7
I get weaker and weaker, and am become a mere skeleton.
8
Deborah's knowledge was a mere skeleton outline as compared with ours.
9
No mere skeleton of political constitution can, of itself, produce moral health and strength.
10
He was about forty, with slightly grizzled hair, a mere skeleton covered with skin.
11
I was a mere skeleton, and fever night and day preyed upon my wasted frame.
12
The patriot force became the mere skeleton of an army, ragged, ill-fed, discouraged, and almost hopeless.
13
This, with their great weight, causes the sheep to dwindle to a mere skeleton and die.
14
I rushed to her home, and was aghast to find her reduced to a mere skeleton.
15
She was more than six feet high, a mere skeleton covered with a black wrinkled skin.
16
In the beginning of August I suffered a severe relapse, which reduced me to a mere skeleton.
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